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" Golden bats and pink pigeons / "
Gerald Durrell.
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BL
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993103
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b747473
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Durrell, Gerald,1925-1995.
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Golden bats and pink pigeons /\ Gerald Durrell.
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Chichester, UK :: Summersdale,, 2007.
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1 online resource
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1429494514
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: 1840247886
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: 1840247894
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: 9781429494519
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: 9781840247886
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: 9781840247893
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1840246359
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Title from PDF cover (viewed Sep. 17, 2007).
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| Contents
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FOREWORD by Lee Durrell; A WORD IN ADVANCE; CHAPTER ONE -- MACABEE AND THE DODO TREE; CHAPTER TWO -- PINK PIGEON PALAVER; CHAPTER THREE -- ROUND ISLAND; CHAPTER FOUR -- THE FRUGIVOROUS FLIGHT; CHAPTER FIVE -- THE ENCHANTED WORLD; CHAPTER SIX -- BOA-HUNT; CHAPTER SEVEN -- PINK PIGEON POSTSCRIPT; TAILPIECE; AFTERWORD by Toni Hickey, Senior Bird Keeper, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust; A MESSAGE FROM THE DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST.
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Mauritius, the green and mountainous island in the Indian Ocean, was once the home of the ill-fated dodo, and by the 1970s it still had many unique but endangered species, hanging onto their existence by their fingernails. When Gerald Durrell went to rescue some of these creatures from extinction, he experienced danger and discomfort, but enjoyed the adventures greatly. He spent nights in the jungle looking for bats and pink pigeons, and climbed near-vertical rock faces to find Telfair's skinks and Gunther's geckos, spending his spare time exploring the enchanted worlds of the coral reefs with.
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Rare animals-- Mauritius.
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Wild animal collecting-- Mauritius.
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Rare animals.
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SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Zoology-- General.
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Wild animal collecting.
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Mauritius.
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596/.09/6982
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QL337.M37D87 2007eb
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